Yes but if your hearing is already obliterated (as mine is) the fan noise is not so much of a concern. My Blade 2500 maxes out at 2 CPUs and XVR1200, using a V445 with 4 CPUs and an XVR2500 is, as I've said, tempting...

At the risk of sending you into information overloadland, you can find the answers to most of what you're wondering about here: http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/origin/007-3439-002.pdf PM me if you'd like help in finding an OS to load to your wonderful collection... :mrgreen:

[…]but in terms of his status as the "most famous scientist in the world," I think there are at least three physicists whose work has been more significant, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, and John Preskill. The respective merit of Hawkins/Guth/Linde/Preskill is open to debate. But I venture to ...

Saw him speak at my alma mater, the University of Minnesota campus Northrop Auditorium, 25 years or so ago (yeah, I know, I'm one of those old dudes!), as part of his world tour following his publications about the concept of imaginary time. He gave a prepared presentation and answered questions the...

Is it not possible or would it not maybe be better to fit a SUN Quadro card into this machine? (The extra power connector required for the card might be a problem that needs to overcome though, as I don't spot any extra power connectors within the system) It's my understanding (but I could be wrong...

With a Sun PCI Express XVR-2500 Graphics Accelerator you could use the V445 as a workstation! Hmmmm, now I'm tempted... 8-) If our desks were deep enough we could just use it as desktop below our displays and feel the cool breeze of air 8-) sucked into the machine... :lol: Dang, I'm seeing a vendor...

hamei is right, Suns are great in the datacenter (the datacenter at my place of employ is jam packed with 'em), but if you're interested in a workstation, I've got a 2 x 1.6GHz sparc Blade 2500 with an xvr1200 graphics card running Solaris 10 that I'm actually quite fond of. I wonder why they never...

Oh, sorry guys, yeah xv will only do screenshots, but I think mediarecorder is what you want, and as far as full screen movies go, I don't think you really want to record things at 1920 by 1200 anyway: